Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 5 June 2018

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.ttspca.com (“website”) which is owned and operated by the Trinidad and Tobago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals Tobago Branch, also known as TTSPCA Tobago Branch (“us”, “we”, or “our”). This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared

What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data

The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information

How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information

1.0 Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this website.

We have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email (either directly or via contact form on our website), through submission of donation on our website (we collect your name, email, phone number, date of transaction, and donation amount), other direct contact from you, and information collected via cookies or log data.

1.1. Email

While using the contact form on our website or sending us a direct email, you may be required to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: your full name, email address, and phone number.

1.2 Credit Card

We accept credit card donations via our website. This is done through Wipay, a third-party e-commerce provider. When making a credit card donation you will first be required to provide the following information on our website: (a) Name on credit card, (b) Email address, (c) Phone number, and (d) Donation amount. Please note the amount you enter is subject to an additional credit card fee and a Wipay commission. This added amount along with the total amount to be charged to the credit card will be clearly display. This information identified in items (a) through (d) along with the total amount will be provided to Wipay to process your credit card transaction. After you enter this information, you will be automatically re-directed to the Wipay payment page where you will be required to enter other credit card information. After confirming the payment, you will be re-directed to our website where you will be able to print a receipt of your transaction. You may view Wipay’s credit card security policy via https://wipaytoday.com/legal/.

1.3 Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

1.4 Log Data

We use the third-party service of Google Analytics to collect, monitor and analyse Log Data. This may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

1.5 Links

This website contains links to other websites (Wipay, Facebook and LinkedIn). Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

1.6 Use of Information

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us.

We may use your information to contact you via email or phone in the future with newsletters, marketing/promotional materials, changes to this privacy policy or other information.

1.6. Sharing of Information

We will not sell or rent your information. We will not share your information with any third-party outside of our organisation, other than as necessary to fulfill your request. We may disclose your information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation

Protect and defend the rights or property of TTSPCA Tobago Branch

Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

Protect against legal liability

2.0 Your Access to and Control over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the contact form on our website:

See what data we have about you, if any

Change/correct any data we have about you

Have us delete any data we have about you

Express any concern you have about our use of your data

3.0 Security

We take precautions to protect your information but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. When you submit sensitive information via the website, we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information both online and offline, however, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only personnel who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

4.0 Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

5.0 Contact Us

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via the contact form on our website.